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<br />1\' ,'; 3ft <br />U'd .... <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MONTHLY REPORT <br />TO THE <br />COLORADO RIVER BOARD OF CALIFORNIA <br /> <br />RECEIVED <br />JUN 1 4 1999 <br /> <br />June 8, 1999 <br /> <br />Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board <br /> <br />ADMINISTRATION <br /> <br />Fiscal Year 1999-2000 Budget <br /> <br />Included in the Board folder are copies of Standard Agreement No. 30 and a resolution <br />approving, the funding arrangements for the Board's Fiscal Year 1999-2000 Budget. The Colorado <br />River Board's budget for Fiscal Year 1999-2000 is $1.071,000 verses last year's budget of$1 ,076, <br />000. The state's General Fund will provide $211,000, the California Environmental License Plate <br />Fund will provide $18,000, and the Six Agency Committee will provide the remaining $842,000, <br /> <br />PROTECTION OF EXISTING RIGHTS <br /> <br />Colorado River Water Reoort <br /> <br />During April 1999. storage in the major Upper Basin reservoirs decreased by 34,000 acre-feet <br />and storage in the Lower Basin reservoirs decreased by 412,000 acre-feet. Total System active <br />storage as of the end of April was 52,727 million acre-feet (mat) or 88 percent of capacity, which <br />is 617,000 mafless than one year ago, <br /> <br />May releases from Hoover, Davis, and Parker Darns averaged 19,440, 18,290 and 13,150 <br />cubic feet per second (cfs), resp,ectively, Planned releases from those three darns for the month of <br />June are 17, I 00, 17,200 and 13,700 cfs, respectively. The June releases represent those needed to <br />meet downstream water requirements, <br /> <br />The June I forecast of April through July 1999 unregulated inflow into Lake Powell is 7,600 <br />maf, which is 98 percent of-the 30-year average for the period 1961-1990. The June I forecast of <br />unregulated inflow into Lake Powell for the 1998-99 water year is II. 783 maf, or 101 percent of the <br />30-year average. <br /> <br />The Lower Division states' estimated consumptive use of Colorado River water for calendar <br />year 1999, as estimated by Board staff, totals 8.344 mafand is projected as follows: Arizona, 2.952 <br />maf; California, 5.122 maf; and. Nevada. 0,270 maf. Estimated additional unmeasured return flow <br />credits of 0,241 maf would reduce the total amount to 8,103 maf. For calendar year 1999, the <br />Central Arizona Project (CAP) is projected to divert 1.469 maf and The Metropolitan Water District <br />of Southern California (MWD) is projected to divert 1,219 maf. <br /> <br />The June I" estimate of 1999 end-of-year California agricultural consumptive use of <br />Colorado River water under the first three priorities of the 1931 California Seven Party Agreement <br />